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Thursday, December 7, 2017

ATHENS—Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the status of Muslims in Greece during a state visit to Athens on Thursday that aired long-running tensions between the two countries. On the first day of a two-day trip to Greece, Mr. Erdogan said ...

… a relatable view into ancient Greek society and culture,” Kondoleon said … dead. This new permanent ancient Greece gallery – created out of a … restore objects in the ancient Greece collection, for which the museum …

… out with military bands and Greece’s ornately dressed presidential guard … office. Looking on in dismay – Greek ministers exchanging knowing smiles around … Cyprus. Relations between Turkey and Greece have long been strained. Hostility …

A tree planted at Belfast City Hospital in the 1960s by a medical student from Greece has been crowned Northern Ireland's tree of the year. Before achieving worldwide fame for developing a groundbreaking form of kidney dialysis; a young Dr Dimitrios Oreopoulos undertook research at Queen's ...

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn’s enormous fall from grace is an object lesson in the seductive allure of money, fame and power. His story is perhaps not quite a Greek tragedy, but rather a kind of 21st-century parable with morals for us all. Throughout my time in uniform with Mike, he was a determined, hard-edged and…

Turkey and Greece's leaders have publicly aired their grievances at an unusually candid press conference. The two NATO members are divided over a series of issues — some decades-old, others much more recent.

ATHENS – Betty Baziana, spouse of the Greek premier, paid a visit to Emine Erdogan, spouse of the visiting president of Turkey, at an Athens […] The post Spouse of Greek PM Visits Turkish President’s Wife at Athens Hotel appeared first on The National Herald.

“The message from the Greek government, in consultation with the Republic of Cyprus, is clear: there needs to be a preparation, a dialogue between the two countries [GREECE and Turkey] on the chapter of security and guarantees, so that we can determine whether the groundwork exists for a ...

Dec. 7 (UPI) --Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Greece Thursday and urged a review of a border treaty -- in what became a tense exchange with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos. Erdogan's visit was the first of a Turkish head of state to ...

He said that although the Turkish state has waived its international right to have a say in the Orthodox patriarch's election in Istanbul, offering the process full aytonomy, the GREEK state insists on appointing the mufti in Thrace, not allowing the local minority to elect its religious leader. Erdogan added that ...

The Lausanne Treaty is the cornerstone of GREEK-Turkish relations, GREEK Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras noted during joint statements with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday, after their meeting at the Maximos Mansion in Athens. Tsipras stressed the importance of enhancing ...

GREECE and Turkey squared up over old disputes during a state visit to Athens by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan that quickly descended into verbal sparring over a list of historical grievances. Designed to boost relations between the two nations, the first visit of a Turkish president in 65 years quickly ...

… Turkish origins living in northern Greece. Erdogan also accused the European … relations." Erdogan, who visited Greece twice as prime minister, in … enter airspace that Greece claims as its own, prompting Greek authorities to …

ATHENS – The Lausanne Treaty is the cornerstone of Greek-Turkish relations, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said during joint statements with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan […] The post Tsipras Urges Turkey to End Airspace Violations in Presser with Erdogan appeared first on The National Herald.

ATHENS – Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos is departing Athens on Thursday to attend the 19th Annual Capital Link Invest in Greece Forum on December 11 in […] The post FinMin Tsakalotos in NYC for Capital Link Invest in Greece Forum appeared first on The National Herald.

The United States of America supports the sovereignty of countries like Greece and Turkey as a matter of principle, the American government said in comments […] The post The US Supports the Sovereignty of Greece and Turkey, State Dept Says to ERT appeared first on The National Herald.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan became the first Turkish head of state to visit Greece in more than six decades on Thursday in a landmark trip that quickly exposed long-held historical grievances. Erdogan’s two-day visit got off to a rocky start when ...

Erdogan points directly to revision of Lausanne Treaty in meeting with Greek president 07/12 12:36 Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, a veteran politician and constitutional expert by training, said treaties neither need revision or updating, in reply ...

ATHENS, Greece — The leaders of Greece and Turkey publicly aired their grievances Thursday in a tense news conference as a two-day visit to Athens by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan got off to a rocky start. The Greek government had expressed ...

OSU was investigating 11 chapters this fall, an “unacceptably high number,” Ryan Lovell, the school's director of GREEK life said in a letter to fraternities. GREEK life is considered a staple of several area institutions, including the University of Dayton and Miami University, which has been nicknamed the ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will start on Thursday a two-day official visit to GREECE aimed at improving ties between the two neighbors in a ... Erdogan visited GREECE twice as prime minister in 2004 and 2010, but his visit as president has a symbolic meaning, as Mahmut Celal Bayar was the ...

Some experts believe President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to GREECE will bring bilateral issues to the table. Erdogan is visiting GREECE on Thursday and Friday, becoming the first Turkish president to visit the country in 65 years. Bilateral relations and regional issues will be discussed during the ...

UNHCR supports the Government of GREECE who coordinates the refugee response. The Office works with other UN agencies, international and national NGOs, state institutions, community-based organizations, refugee and host communities through sectoral Working Groups at the national and field ...

[Mir Jafar] There are a lot of hated people in military history and no one is more hated than a turncoat. Even the troops on a traitor’s new side will never trust them entirely — after all, they turned their back on their own country for personal gain. How trustworthy can they be? This list details the most notorious, most gut-wrenching, most fatal backstabs in military history. These are direct betrayals of historical figures, in alphabetical order. There are no abstract judgment calls (like naming Judas Iscariot), no political statements (like calling out Nixon for extending the Vietnam War), and no traitors for good causes — Rommel tried to kill Hitler, but that’s hardly “notorious.” 7. EMILIO AGUINALDO Wikimedia Commons Aguinaldo fought many foes to liberate the Philippines and its people, including the Spanish and the Americans. Once captured (he was actually betrayed by his own men) and released, he would wear black to mourn lost Philippine independence. When the Japanese brutally occupied the island, you’d think he’d go right back to fighting invaders killing Filipinos. You’d be wrong. He made radio addresses and speeches, imploring the Americans and Filipinos to surrender on Bataan in the hopes of getting the Japanese to make him President of their puppet government. The people ignored him. When the U.S. retook the islands, he was jailed as a collaborator. Although remembered as the first President of the Philippines, “Japanese collaborator” is a huge stain on his anti-colonialist résumé. 6. BENEDICT ARNOLD Wikimedia Commons The name Americans love to hate. His name is so synonymous with the word “traitor” in the U.S., calling someone a “Benedict Arnold” can still cause fists to fly over 200 years later. Arnold wasn’t a bad general — his skills were critical to early American victories, especially at Saratoga. However, Arnold felt passed over and used. Instead of pressing on and waiting for his day to come, he offered to surrender West Point to the British in exchange for money and a general’s commission in the British Army. The British didn’t get West Point, though, because Arnold’s plan was discovered and he escaped to British lines. 5. EPHIALTES OF TRACHIS Screenshot via YouTube This is the guy who the historian Herodotus says betrayed the Greeks at Thermopylae. It was there the outnumbered Greeks formed a bottleneck in the pass between the Malian Gulf and the “impassable and precipitous” mountain to the west. Herodotus’ account says Ephialtes showed the much-larger Persian army a “single-wheel track” that ran behind the Greek lines. Once surrounded, the Greeks were, of course, slaughtered. SEE THE REST OF THE STORY AT BUSINESS INSIDER

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece and Turkey squared up over old disputes on Thursday during a state visit to Athens by Tayyip Erdogan that quickly descended into verbal sparring over a list of historical grievances. Designed to boost relations between the two ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan on Dec. 7 said during an official visit to GREECE that “some details” in the Treaty of Lausanne, which established the borders of the Republic of Turkey with its neighbors, were “unclear.” Speaking in Athens at a joint news conference with Greek Prime Minister Alexis ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Thursday that the treaty defining border relations between GREECE and Turkey should be trashed, the Guardian reported. In the first official visit to GREECE by a Turkish head of state in 65 years, Erdoğan reportedly stoked tensions by disparaging the ...

An adventurer at heart, the fourth-grader at Pine Brook Elementary in GREECE, plays Challenger baseball, is a novice violinist and just got her first pair of glasses last month. The youngest of four children, "Giana is the Queen Bee of our house," Bisnett said with a laugh. She's "silly and sassy and loves to ...

… Greece recognizes only as a religious minority. The status of the Greece … Lausanne. Erdogan rattled Greek officials by telling Greece’s Skai television in … handed over before Greek courts became involved. Other than Greece, Poland is …

… Cyprus. Relations between Turkey and Greece have long been strained. Hostility … into Greece by helicopter to evade arrest as the putsch unfolded. Greek … start behaving less irrationally towards Greece,” said MP Harry Theocharis, who …

Athens is committed to GREEK-Turkish friendship “which can only be based on mutual respect, international law, respect for international treaties and the territorial integrity of the two countries,” a message posted on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's official Twitter account said Thursday. The tweet included ...

Members of GREEK life and the Office of Student Engagement are locked in an ongoing debate over the new Bring Your Own Beverage (BYOB) policy. Some members of GREEK organizations say that the new policy will stifle campus party culture, while administrators say the policy will require student ...

After 43 years in business as Krazy GREEK Restaurant in downtown Rochester, owners George and Barbara Prapas and son Dino Prapas will change the diner into a cookie dough bar. Dino's Cookie Dough Bar is tentatively scheduled to open in March. "We've been here since 1974 so we're a little ...

As you pull into the parking lot just outside of Mykonos GREEK Restaurant, you sense the uniqueness of this local treasure. The restaurant, built by owner Jim Pantoleon 19 years ago, is a special place for family and friends to enjoy a great meal. As I enter, I'm struck by the grandeur of the atrium-like feel ...

The first official visit by a Turkish president to Greece in six decades got off to a tense start yesterday after Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the countries needed to reassess their border and demanded the extradition of suspected coup plotters. Uneasy ...

By Gayla Cawley, LYNN, MA – Thomas L. Demakes, a well-known businessman in Lynn, MA, was honored by St. George Greek Orthodox Church on November […] The post St. George Community in Lynn Thanks Thomas L. Demakes appeared first on The National Herald.

One year after the frictions caused by the Cham issue, Albania and GREECE find themselves embroiled in a series of quarrels related to the urban plan of the coastal town of Himara. This city in Southern Albania includes a significant Greek minority, which complains about the violation of property rights by ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday demanded the extradition of suspected coup plotters from Greece, referring to eight soldiers who flew to northern Greece during the failed putsch last year. Speaking in Athens during a joint ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece and Turkey have agreed to launch “confidence building measures” under their supervision, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Thursday during a visit by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to Athens. “We agreed to resume talks ...

Germany’s second largest party SPD leader Martin Schulz called for the transformation of the European Union into a United States of Europe by 2025 with a common constitution. “Europe is our life insurance,” Schulz told an SPD party convention in Berlin on Thursday. I want a new constitutional treaty to establish the United States of … The post SPD leader and ex EP president Martin Schulz wants United Stated of Europe by 2025 appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

The main aim especially of the first Greek bailout was to rescue investors outside Greece, outgoing Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem admitted in the European Parliament on Thursday. Odd. Less than a month ago, Dijsselbloem said that the bailout was used to save the banks. “There were mistakes in the first programmes, we improvised. The way … The post Dijsselbloem admits “first bailout for Greece was aiming to rescue foreign investors” appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

ATHENS — Turkey’s president made a landmark visit to Greece on Thursday, but any expectation for diplomacy was quickly deflated by his call for changes to an international treaty that defined the borders between the rivals, and by suggestions that ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has paid his first visit as Turkish President to Greece today. Before him, Turkish President Celal Bayar visited Athens in 1952. In an interview with one of the Greek TV channels before his visit to Athens, Erdogan said Turkey proposes ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said it was important to broaden the channel of communication with Turkey, during a visit by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to Athens on Thursday. “We are undergoing a critical period in our ...

LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) - Syrian migrant Bashar Wakaa and his heavily pregnant wife are days away from the birth of their third child, stranded on the Greek island of Lesbos in a muddy, garbage-strewn olive grove with no running water or toilets.